Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
By Mike Combs, Copyright © 1994 I used to write for the Fanzine of a Star Trek club, and sometimes used this forum for the discussion of High Frontier-type concepts. The following article began as a paper written for a college seminar hosted by Gerard O’Neill,...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1996 “So you’re going to Nightworld?” Jeff Martin cackled. “Oh man, this might be the point where Gary Decker finally loses his virginity!” “Bite me,” I said. “What? Why, how rude!”...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1995 “We’re coming up on Darkcrater Base now,” the pilot of the moonhopper reported. Eileen Peterson, Ph.D., leaned forward a bit so she could see better out of the window in the front of the lunar shuttle. Her first view...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
THE FUTURIST, February 1976 Space Colonies: The High Fronteir book cover An earth-like space colony could be orbiting our world by 1990, says a Princeton University physicist. The colony’s 10,000 inhabitants would enjoy green plants, animals, plains, valleys,...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright 1995 To my precious wife Sandra. Thanks for the encouragement. Table of Contents Prologue – 1981: A hopeful view of the future Chapter 1 – Evacuation Chapter 2 – A general disatisfaction with the current state of affairs...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
By Al Globus “If the dinosaurs had a space program, they’d still be here.” Anon Introduction Humanity has the power to fill outer space with life. Today our solar system is filled with plasma, gas, dust, rock, and radiation — but very little...
